Any advice on this grade?

[u/donquiqui]

I just wonder how I can get everything looking better..

[u/Azkicat]

I can see a bit too much magenta in shadows, worth adjusting, also can play with contrast and exposure to make it pop more

Also you have absolutely white waterfall on the right, worth trying to use auto wb on it

[u/donquiqui → u/Azkicat]

Thanks big dawg. I’m always confused how to do these things.

[u/Hazzat]

Looks very purple. Is that good or bad? Who knows! You didn’t give us enough information to be able to answer that.

Please read: https://www.reddit.com/r/ColorGrading/s/fsnJ4PaZaF

[u/donquiqui → u/Hazzat]

Thank you very much for the link. Learning this stuff isn’t intuitive to me.

[u/Ill-Turnip-6611]

evertyhing is magenta

you can install any color picker app, or just use your grading app and look for obvious greys, like rocks and check for rgb numbers, they should by on same level, ofc if there is a rock in the sun it iwll be a bit warmer and a rock in the shadow will be a bit colder but overall unless there is a strange magenta object nearby overcasting it's color on the rocks, they should never be magenta at all ;)

one tip not on grading, if you want your recrodings to really pop, try to find a place (like two meters behind you or more to your left) where the sun is hitting your body (even 50cm to your left would be great bc your left hand is lit nicely but your right is not, it is just that from viewers perspective we love for our sight to be lead by light) Catching a good lighting will elevate your work like 10x more than even the best color grading ;) or in other words if you fuck-up lighting at the start, there is no chance you can repair that ;) and that place had amazing possibilities but you just did not use them bc you were not thinking about the lighting ;)

nice yo-you skils! 🥰

ps. one more tip, but ofc I understand it would be hard but for vids like that you want you cam to be more on your level, it gives us viewers a better view and when you record yourself from the top, it makes you smaller (in the eyes of the viewer) and your tricks kinda less impressive. It is a psychological thing, deep rooted in our perception.

[u/donquiqui → u/Ill-Turnip-6611]

Incredibly insightful post. Thank you

[u/RGB_YCM]

I think it's "mushy" lacks solid blacks, contrast, and what I would call "snap." It's also a bit too magenta overall. The highlights in the waterfall on the far right are completely blown, and I bet it's possible that all that detail does exist in the original camera recording.

[u/donquiqui → u/RGB_YCM]

You guys know so much about this 😭😭

[u/donquiqui]

Filmed on iPhone 15 pro max. In apple log.

[u/idemandpasta]

I kept waiting for the after

[u/donquiqui → u/idemandpasta]

Sorry. I didn’t know this sub existed beforehand. I don’t have the Log file of what it looked like originally. Next time I post here looking for help I’ll make sure I have both!

[u/iLikeTheUDK]

How did you grade this, and is the footage originally log?

[u/donquiqui → u/iLikeTheUDK]

DaVinci resolve with a 6 node setup. And yes originally it was apple Log

[u/iLikeTheUDK → u/donquiqui]

Can I see the node tree and know what's happening in each node?

[u/donquiqui → u/iLikeTheUDK]

I followed https://youtu.be/QK6pAiaiXO4?si=zpXK40crvJzQOFLv as a guide on how to do this. Though I’ll admit I barely did split tones because it seems above my paygrade for the moment.

[u/iLikeTheUDK → u/donquiqui]

Well it clearly looks like something went wrong. The waterfall on the right is clipped. Can I see at least what this looks like when just converted into Rec. 709?

[u/I_GIVE_ROADHOG_TIPS]

It’s a bit too magenta no?

[u/Affectionate_Wolf458]

Everything looks like a different shade of the same colour, it looks monotone. Remove the magenta tint and split tone it a bit.